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From: stanonik@NPRDC.NAVY.MIL (Ron Stanonik)
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Subject: milnet billing
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Date: 26 Jun 89 20:00:00 GMT
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We've heard rumors that milnet sites might be charged for network
access (something like $100k per year for a psn connection, plus
packet charges).  Currently end-users (ie, milnet hosts) are not
being billed; apparently dca is picking up the tab, though we understand
that "informational bills" are being sent to overseeing organizations.

Well, this raises many questions.

1) Is any of it true?  Will overseeing organizations be receiving
real bills, and should end-users expect to pay those bills; ie,
need to budget for them?

2) What charging rates should be expected?  In particular, how will
packet charges be figured (ip packets or psn packets)?

3) If ip packets are the measure, will a gateway be billed for packets
routed through it, or will the orginating network be billed?  The
information all seems available for the latter; ie, the address is
in the packet, and the network is presumably registered with NIC.

4) Is there a better forum for these questions?

Thanks,

Ron Stanonik
stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil